Kit Reuther
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Kit Reuther
The modernist environment of my childhood in the 1960’s and 1970’s in suburban Nashville, Tennessee has been the strongest component in shaping my personal aesthetic. Early interest and studies in architecture and interior design equipped me to approach art as both object and expression.
My work is best described as a cross-pollination of modernism and primitivism. Resisting any pull towards literal imagery, I am most comfortable when the work loosely insinuates something familiar, but is not defined by a hard narrative.
I continue to build on a personal vocabulary of mark-making rendered in shorthand. Dark, weighty masses of paint coexist with pencil-thin lines. Highly pigmented colors are used judiciously, and only intended to quietly enliven the predominant palette of weathered whites, warm grays and blacks. Layers of paint are generously applied, marks made, painted over, rubbed out, and drawn again, until a balance of intention and randomness is achieved.